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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY S. GREENE, OF LAWVRENCE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THOMAS H. GREENE, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMBINED GIGGING AND SHEARING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 469,502, dated February 23, 1892. Application filed February 16, 1891- Serial No. 381,695. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern: shears the cloth passes down to the brush or Be it known that I, HENRY S. GREENE, of card cylinder 19, being guided by the guide Lawrence, in the county of Essex and State and tension rods q r, and from the cylinder 13 of Massachusetts, have invented certain new the cloth passes under rolls 3 t and rod to in 5 and useful Improvements in Combined Gigcontact with the carding or teaseling cylinder ging and ShearingMachines, of which the folv, and from thence around the roll to and lowing is a specification. draft-rolls a", thence under the roll y, over roll The invention has'relation to machines for a to the folder a, which lays it in convolufinishing cloth; and it has for its object the tions or folds on the box or base-table b. In to simplification of such machinery, as well as its passage through the machine the cloth, af-

the enhancementof its capacity and efficiency. ter being acted upon by the shears, is gigged The invention consists of a machine for finor teaseled by the cylinders 19 u, so that it is ishing cloth, comprising in its construction a unnecessary to pass it to a second machine shearing mechanism for cutting the nap, a for that purpose. I 5 roll or cylinder for drawing the cloth through Movement is imparted to such rolls and the machine, guide rolls, bars, or rods for other parts as it is desired should be rotated guiding the cloth through the machine and or moved by means of belts and gears, as is putting it under proper tension, and a cardclearly shown in Fig. 1, and need not be deing or gigging cylinder having adjustable scribed in detail herein. 7o 29 bearings, as hereinafter described, to gig or It will be seen that the driving means of teasel the cloth after the same has passed the cylinders 10 1) may be so belted as to be rotated shears. at a very high speed, so as to effect a thorough The invention will be described in view of gigging of the cloth by the operation of said the annexed drawings, forming a part of this two cylinders only, and in some instances the 25 specification, and then be pointed out in the use of one of said cylinders maybe dispensed claims. with.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation In order to adjust the gigging-cylinder I) so of my improved machine. Fig. 2 is a vertical as to cause the same to act with greater or central sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is less violence upon the cloth, I mount the same 30 a detail view of whatI term a swivel-jointed in sliding bearing-boxes 1), adapted to move adjuster for adjusting the guide-rods, so as on the frame, the said bearing-boxes having that the tension 011 cloth shall be varied, and the screw-rods c tapped therein. To the outer so that it may he moved nearer to or farther end of the screw-rods are affixed worm-gears from the axis of one of the brushes or card- 01', which are engaged by worms on the worm- 8 5 3 5 rolls. Fig. at is a detail view showing the manshaft 6, to the outer end of which is connected nor of adjusting the bearings or boxes of one a hand-wheel f. By turning the hand-wheel of the carding or gigging rolls. f the bearing-boxes 1) maybe adjusted hori- Sirnilarletters of reference designate similar zontally to cause the cylinder v to bear with parts or features, as the case maybe, wherever greater or less force against the face of the 40 they occur. cloth, as before explained. It will be seen In the drawings, a designates the frame of that a line drawn from the rod to to the roll to the machine, from the box or base-table b of is inclined to the horizontal path of adj ustwhich the cloth 0 is led around guide and tenment of the gigging-cylinder V and the cloth sion rods d 6 over roll f, under rod g, up in between said rod and roll passes in an inclined 4 5 contact with guide and tension rods h-i, around direction. Therefore a certain amount of adthe edge of the rest or bar j, and in contact justment of the gigging-cylinder in a horiwith the brush 70, which raises the nap for the zontal direction will efiect the action of said shears, over roll Z, under rod 721., and around cylinder on the cloth to a less degree than if v the edge of the cloth rest or support at, where the cloth passed in a vertical direction, re- 50 it is operated upon by the rotary shear 0, sulting in capabilities of finer adjustment. which properly shears the same. From the This is an important feature of the invention.

The swivel-jointed adjuster before mentioned is-connected with the guide-rods h r and serves to so adjust the position of the same as to vary the tension on the cloth in the machine and permit the cylinder 10 to act on the face of the goods with more or less force. ends of pendent levers g" h, pivoted at their upper ends upon the rods 41 q. The lever h is extended above the rod q, and with the end of this extension there is pivotally connected one end of a bar or pitman i, the opposite end of which is pivotally connected with the lever 9 below the bar 2'.

k designates a bar or pitman, which is pivotally connected at its inner end upon the bar h and at its opposite end with a block Z, through which passes the screwthreaded end of a rod m, suitably supported in bearings in the machine-and provided on its upper end with a hand-wheel n.

It will now be seen that by turning the screw-rod m the rods h a" may, through the medium of pitmen 7c 11' and pendent levers g h, be adjusted nearer to or farther from each other, varying the tension on the cloth by varying the angle at which the same will be guided to and from the rodsqronits passage from the shears to the cylinder 19, and also varying the force with which it is made to bear on thesurface'of the cylinder p.

Various changes may be made in the form and arrangement of parts comprising my improvements without departing from the nature or spirit of the invention.

Having thus explainedthe nature-of my improvements and described a way of construct- The rods h a" are journaled in the lower ing and using the same, I declare that what I claim is 1. A cloth-finishing machine comprising in its construction guide rods or rolls mounted in the frame, with the plane uniting their axes inclined, and a horizontally-adjustable gigging-cylinder to act with greater or less violence on the cloth, as set forth. V

2. A cloth-finishing machine comprising in its construction guide rods or rolls mounted in the frame,with the plane uniting their axes inclined, a gigging-cylinder, horizontally-sliding boxes in which the journals of the said gigging-cylinder bear, and a screw-rod to engage the said sliding boxes to move and adjust the same, as set forth.

3. The combination, with the frame of a gigging and shearing mechanism, of the rodsi q, supported by said frame, the levers g h, pivoted upon the said rods and pendent there from, the lever 71,, having a projection above its fulcrum, a pitman connecting said projection with the lever g below its fulcrum, the rods h 1', having bearings in the lower ends of said levers, the screw-rod m, supported by HENRY S. GREENE.

Witnesses ARTHUR W. ORossLnY, A. D. HARRISON. 

